Susan Moody, Author Otto Penzler Books $20.5 (310p) ISBN 978-1-883402-32-7
Moody plays a near perfect hand in the second adventure of bridge professional Cassandra Swann, introduced in Death Takes a Hand. Cassie, who teaches a weekly bridge class at a local prison, is hired by wealthy, social-climbing Londoner Royston...
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Susan Moody, Author Scribner Book Company $21 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-80258-9
In her third appearance, following Take-Out Double, British bridge expert and amateur sleuth Cassandra Swann pursues an investigation that hits very close to home. Discouraged by her failure at dieting and uncertain of her relationship with police...
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Susan Moody, Author Scribner Book Company $21.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-80259-6
Bridge instructor Cassandra Swann, busy setting up a bridge-supply business in the bucolic Cotswolds, is drawn reluctantly into investigating the death of acquaintance Naomi Harris, whose decomposed body was found in the trunk of her car. An...
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Susan Moody, Author Signet Book $5.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-451-19228-8
Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of The Secret Garden, surely never expected her beloved Mary, Colin and Dickon's innocent childhood friendship to end up as a made-for-TV love triangle. Taking great poetic license, Moody (author of the Cassie...
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Susan Moody, Author Delacorte Press $20 (409p) ISBN 978-0-385-30241-8
Moody, author of the Penny Wanawake mysteries, centers this entertaining but fragmented thriller around Frances Breet, the daughter of a French mother and a recently assassinated American journalist father. In Istanbul, Fran meets Nicholas Marquend,
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Susan Moody, Author O. Penzler Books $20 (296p) ISBN 978-1-883402-00-6
Veteran Moody ( House of Moons and the Penny Wanawake series) enlivens her traditional English cozy with a welcome new heroine. Cassie Swann, 30-year-old instructor at a Winter Bridge Weekend in a country hotel, discovers three students dead at...
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Susan Moody. Severn, $28.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8014-7
Moody (Dummy Hand and five other Cassie Swann bridge mysteries) deftly captures austere post-WWII England in this subtle, somber stand-alone. Seven-year-old Alice and eight-year-old Orlando have settled with their large extended family in roomy...
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Susan Moody. Severn, $28.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8149-6
In a seamlessly plotted story, Moody (Losing Nicola) believably coveys the childhood trauma of Theodora Cairns, whose paranoid mother dragged her around the world in the first 11 years of her life and then disappeared for the next 10. Now an adult...
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Susan Moody. Severn, $28.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8227-1
Moody (Dancing in the Dark) packs this flimsy story with improbabilities, and making the characters comment “This is all too much of a coincidence” doesn’t fool the readers into ignoring the author’s clumsy engineering. Kate Lennox survived a car...
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Susan Moody. Severn, $28.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8288-2
Chantal Frazer, the heroine of this spine-tingling thriller from Moody (Dancing in the Dark), has existed in a strange limbo since age 12, when her adored older sister, Sabine, was brutally slain while working as an au pair at Weston Lodge in the...
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Susan Moody. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8588-3
Alexandra Quick, a former detective inspector and the heroine of this disappointing series launch from British author Moody (A Final Reckoning), becomes an amateur sleuth only because her friend and business partner, art historian Helena Drummond,...
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Susan Moody. Severn, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8658-3
In Moody’s so-so sequel to 2016’s Quick and the Dead, art historian Alexandra Quick, who was once the youngest detective chief inspector in England, until she left the force after losing an unborn child and her husband ran off with his longtime...
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Susan Moody. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8731-3
Moody’s pleasant third mystery featuring London art historian Alex Quick (after 2017’s Quick off the Mark) opens with a plea from wealthy 25-year-old Sandro Grainger. He wants his friend Alex, a former police detective, to discreetly investigate...
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